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My Father

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A little slow at first but turns out great. I love this author (One second after) because he doesn't go out there in lala land with adjectives galore. At a certain point I'm just like "get to the dang point"'!!! I'm about to purchase the next book in this series.

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P. J. Bell

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carl

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Great

Thought this was going to be a bit crappy and it did have a crappy seeming start but I loved it and would suggest to anyone